Advancing Security and Sustainability at the G7 Hiroshima Summit

March 29, 2023
Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Sponsored by
Soka University, the G7 Research Group, the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation and Soka Gakkai International

Watch video of livestream on YouTube at https://bit.ly/g7-hiroshima-summit-youtube
or on Facebook at https://bit.ly/g7-hiroshima-summit-facebook

See Recommendations presented to Japan's 2023 G7 Secretariat.

The G7 Research Group thanks the team from the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation for making the livestream, photographs and video montage possible.

Montage produced by the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation

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Prospectus

The G7's Hiroshima Summit on May 19-21, 2023, confronts four key potentially existential, interrelated, global threats – the danger of nuclear war in Europe and Asia, irreversible climate change and global health. Japan's G7 presidency identified these threats as priorities from the very start of its year as G7 host, alongside other immediate challenges in the economic, social, ecological and political-security domains.

As Japan and its G7 partners develop their agenda and prospective actions for the Hiroshima Summit, they and their citizens will consider several key questions.

How well have G7 summits governed nuclear weapons, climate change and global health in the past, through timely, well-tailored, collective commitments and members' faithful compliance with them?
What further advances have come from recent summits influenced by G7 members, notably the G20's Bali Summit in November 2022?
How and where has Japan, especially as a G7 host, effectively shaped summit action on nuclear weapons, climate change and global health in the past and what assets does it have for doing so now?
What are the most urgent and important needs for actions to control nuclear weapons, climate change and global health now, and ones that Japan's Hiroshima Summit can best supply in May?

To assist in finding answers to these questions at an early stage, the G7 Research Group, Soka University, Soka Gakkai International and the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation are sponsoring a one-day invitational, international conference at Soka University in Tokyo on March 29, 2023. At this hybrid livestreamed event, experts from the educational, academic, civil society and government communities will gather in person and virtually to share their perspectives and offer their best analysis and advice on what Japan's Hiroshima Summit should do to control nuclear, climate and global health risks. The conference will conclude by assembling specific recommendations that command the most consensus at this event, as the basis for priority recommendations to be sent by the sponsors to the G7 planners themselves.

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Program

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09h00–09h15 JST	Welcome
	Masashi Suzuki, President, Soka University
	John Kirton, Director, G7 Research Group
	Audrey Kitagawa, President, International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation (IAMC)
	Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General, Peace and Global Issues, Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

09h15–10h15 JST	G7 Contributions to Global Governance
	Chair: Minoru Koide, Soka University
	John Kirton, University of Toronto: G7 Performance, 1975–2022
	Madeline Koch, G7 Research Group: G7 Compliance, 1975–2022
	Jonathan Luckhurst, Soka University: G7-G20-UN Synergies

10h15–10h30 JST	Break

10h30-11h30 JST	Japan's Contribution to G7 Governance
	Chair: Tomoko Utsumi, Soka University
	Hugo Dobson, Sheffield University: Japan's G7 Contributions
	Stephen Nagy, Senior Associate Professor, International Christian University

11h30–12h15 JST	Keynote Address: Japan's Plans, Priorities and Preparations 2023
	Chair: John Kirton, G7 Research Group
	Takashi Ariyoshi, Director of Economic Policy Division and Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat

12h15–13h15 JST	Lunch

13h15–15h15 JST	Controlling Nuclear Weapons
	Chair: Nikolas Emmanuel, Soka University
	Anna Ikeda, SGI Representative to the United Nations [virtual]
	Audrey Kitagawa, IAMC
	Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute
	Rorry Daniels, Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute
	Mitsuru Kurosawa, Professor Emeritus, Osaka University [virtual]
	Nobuyasu Abe, former ambassador; former director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan Institute of International Affairs

15h15–15h30 JST	Break

15h30–17h00 JST	Strengthening Climate, Energy and Health Security
	Chair: Anar Koli, Soka University
	Ella Kokotsis, G7 Research Group, Canada: G7 Performance on Climate Change [virtual]
	Miranda Schreurs, Technical University of Munich, Germany: Japan's Contributions – Past, Present, Potential [virtual]
	Mark Elder, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Tokyo
	Hideaki Shiroyama, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Tokyo University

17h00–17h30 JST	Recommendations for G7 Hiroshima Summit Action
	Chair: Jonathan Luckhurst, Soka University
	Presentations by session chairs summarizing the recommendations arising from their sessions

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Watch videos of livestream on YouTube at https://bit.ly/g7-hiroshima-summit-youtube or by session at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7gdrctaQq34fmEmhL0ubbKVMF209g5VV
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